Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Britain’s rudest bookseller is to quit and “not a moment too soon”, according to relieved residents fed up with him driving tourists away from their Yorkshire Dales village. Steve Bloom admits he is a man who “doesn’t butter his parsnips” when dealing with members of the public.
The 63-year-old hit the headlines earlier this year when the was criticised for asking visitors for a 50p entry fee to Bloomindales, his secondhand book shop in Hawes.